Indiana teen faces possible jail time for sex doll prank gone wrong
 

Wow, complete fail all around....


http://www.thegrio.com/news/indiana-...gone-wrong.php




INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of school, he didn't expect school officials to call a bomb squad or that he'd be facing up to eight years in prison and a possible felony record.

The senior prank gone awry has raised questions of race, prosecutorial zeal and the post-Columbine mindset in a small Indiana town and around the country, The Indianapolis Star reported in its Tuesday editions.

Legal experts question the appropriateness of the charges against Morton, and law professor Jonathan Turley at George Washington University posed a wider question about Morton's case on his legal blog.

"The question is what type of society we are creating when our children have to fear that a prank (could) lead them to jail for almost a decade. What type of citizens are we creating who fear the arbitrary use of criminal charges by their government?"

A janitor at Rushville Consolidated High School saw Morton run away from the school May 31, and security footage showed a person in a hooded sweatshirt and gloves entering the school with a package and leaving five minutes later without it, according to court documents. Administrators feared explosives, so they locked down the school and called police. K9 dogs and a bomb squad searched the building before finding the sex doll.

"We have reviewed this situation numerous times," Rush County Schools Superintendent John E. Williams told the newspaper last week. "When you have an unknown intruder in the building, delivering an unknown package, we come up with the same conclusion. ... We cannot be too cautious, in this day and age."

Morton was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and institutional criminal mischief, a felony that carries the potential of two to eight years in prison. "I know there has been plenty of pranks done at that school," said Morton's mother, Cammie Morton. "I went to that school. When I heard what they was charging him for, my heart just dropped."

Joel Schumm, a professor at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, questioned the validity of the charges. "Their reaction is understandable, but use the school disciplinary process," he said. "Don't try to label the kid a felon for the rest of his life."

The Rush County Prosecutor Philip J. Caviness told The Associated Press that he doesn't intend to seek a prison term for Morton, but said school officials acted appropriately and that the charges are warranted. "I'm pretty comfortable with the charges that we've filed," he said.

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts focused on Morton's case recently in his nationally syndicated column, suggesting that Morton's case was another example of unfair treatment for a black youth without a wealthy family. Morton's father brushed off that suggestion when Pitts asked him about it, and Morton's mother declined to discuss that point with The Star.

Morton's attorney, Robert Turner, also downplayed race, suggesting that the size of the small blue-collar city an hour southeast of Indianapolis played a role. "I don't think they do this sort of thing very often," Turner said. "Had this happened in Indianapolis ... they would not have had this kind of charge filed."

Morton's mother said Tyell Morton wants to attend college, but is worried about the case. "It's stressful for Tyell," Cammie Morton said. "He doesn't know where his life is going to end up. He has been looking -- I'll just put it this way: He's scared."

This...

Good lord people are stupid

overinflated legalities!

Poor kid. Talk about the system failing. A ****ing felony because they got freaked out about a bomb? If he had done anything to make it look bomb-like, there might be a case. Hopefully this gets thrown out.

Sometimes I have a hard time understanding how adults lived to become adults. If this were my kid and an idiot school board couldn't address this very minor issue without involving authorities, I would be entangled with the authorities after assaulting some school board nitwits. Morons should be holding their meetings in a short bus.

That's why you blow the doll up at home and then bring it in. That's sex doll 101 stuff.

In this day and age? Why? Do we have school buildings exploding on a weekly basis in this day and age? I must have missed that.

Exactly. It's understandable for them to be concerned when seeing a hooded person bringing a package into the school, then leaving a short time without it. Especially in today's world where people are ****ing idiots.....but don't ruin the kid for life because of a prank.

In this day and age Rushville Consolidated High School is a huge target for terrorists.. They are eight man football giants in the state of Indiana.

So, they thought that she was going to blow?

Sigh. We must be living in the most scared country in the world. It's really disheartening. Makes me wish I lived through an earlier era.

Someone can't even forget their ****ing bag somewhere w/o people screaming "Bomb!"

Mission Statement: Rushville Consolidated High School
 

Rushville Consolidated High School, in cooperation with the community, will endeavor to prepare students to be contributing citizens and lifelong learners. We will strive to challenge all students academically, physically, technically, and socially, while developing critical-reasoning and problem-solving skills.

http://rchs.rushville.k12.in.us/

ROFL There is some humor in this.

This.

I hate it when they say "this day and age" like we're suppose to be scared because of the time period we're in.

This day and age....Mother****ers....argh...

Well, kids do bring better guns to school. I had a stick of dynamite once I bought from another kid in 7th grade, if that thing had gone off it would've been a blown up school.

I'm not sure that happened so much when parents could beat their children. That's what has changed, kids aren't afraid of their elders any more.

And as for this case, I think shutting the school down and searching for a bomb was smart and the only right idea. Charging this kid with a felony, eh, I don't know. But did he break into the school? Not sure I caught that when I read the article. If he did, then yeah, he's an adult, breaking in to a place is a felony.

Charge the kid with the misdemeanor and make him pay for the bomb squad's time but do not make him a felon for life.

This is how we got to be the #1 country in the world in incarcerations.

I can't count the number of toilets that were blown up at school with M80s and cherry bombs. People got caught and may have been suspended for 3 days but that was about it. It must suck to be a kid today.

He's not being charged with breaking and entering. He's being charged with "institutional criminal mischief". It's a felony. Also he's being charged with some misdemeanor. The prosecutor isn't seeking jail time, but the kid is 18 so the felony will **** him up regardless. What a piece of shit that prosecutor is.

You misread my post and yours in misguided.

I said, he should/could have been charged with breaking and entering if that's what he did. So there's a felony equal to this one, right? Even if this one is unfair, which if the school was closed, it is very fair.

And in most states besides kansas, a small felony conviction like this won't stay on your record if you have no criminal history. The likely plea deal will be 2 or 3 yrs probation, and with the condition that once probation is completed, the offense is COMPLETELY wiped off your record.

I didn't misread, I was letting you know what he was being charged with. I didn't know about the second part of your post, and I hope that's the case if he gets convicted of this bullshit charge.

Absolutely, cause kids never did anything stupid when they were spanked.

If the doors to a public building were not locked, then I do not see how he broke in.

Make him pay a fine and some community service. If it goes that far and he gets the felony, hopefully the town rallies and fires/removes all of those that signed off on it.

Before I can render an opinion on this racially and ethically charged scenario, I must ask....

Exactly what did this doll look like?

In this day and age = In a time where prosecutors are idiots

Nobody knows... The janitor kept her.

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http://images.cheezburger.com/comple...7808210780.jpg

Cardinal Rule: Run into the head, they think you have diarrhea. Run out of the head, they think you planted a bomb & you get 8 years. Its his own fault.

Yep. 25 years ago the teachers and administrators would have been laughing at this behind closed doors as much as the students.

kid shouldn't be charged WITH ANYTHING

give him a couple weeks of school detention and make him scrub toilets or something for awhile.

He pulled a prank there was nothing criminal about it.